Mudras + Movement: How Gesture Becomes Medicine

In this episode of Toxic Silence, we’re exploring the body’s most ancient language — the quiet gestures, shapes, and postures through which emotion speaks when words fall away.

So many of us carry the residue of unspoken experience — the tension in a jaw that never got to shout, the collapsed chest of someone who learned to stay small, the throat that still fears being heard. Our bodies remember what our minds try to forget.

Healing doesn’t always require effort — sometimes it begins in stillness. A simple gesture, a soft breath, the willingness to bring awareness to the places we’ve abandoned.

The body is always whispering, always trying to find its way back to flow. A blocked channel, a held muscle, a forgotten inhale — all of it waiting for our presence, for the small acts of devotion that say: I’m here now. You can soften.

When we shape our hands into a Mudra, when we sit and breathe into a posture, we’re not forcing anything open. We’re creating space — a quiet invitation for energy to circulate again, for emotion to move, for life to return to the places that have gone numb.

This is the essence of Kriya, of Mudra, of movement as medicine: the understanding that the divine is not something we must reach for, but something we remember through the body.

My guest today is Rachel Zinman, an internationally renowned yoga teacher, author, and musician based in Byron Bay. With over 35 years of teaching experience, she shares the wisdom of Yoga and Self Knowledge through the Sundaram Online Ashram, which she co-founded with her partner and Vedanta master, John Weddepohl. Rachel’s love of mudras — sacred gestures that restore balance and calm — infuses her work with depth, stillness, and grace. Through her classes, writing, and music, she guides others to experience yoga as a living path toward harmony and awareness.

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